We want to preserve the original goal of transparency and accountability, without hindering critical city functions
Gloria is mayor of San Diego. He lives in Little Italy. I have long believed that San Diegans have a right to know how, where and why government might be capturing their data, taking video of them, or otherwise surveilling them — and what they’re doing with the information collected. As a City Council member, I questioned the former police chief about the Police Department’s use of Stingray tracking devices.
All told, staff would need to attend more than 2,700 meetings to comply with the ordinance for all the technologies we use in our work serving San Diego. This costs thousands of hours of staff time and taxpayer dollars that could better be spent directly serving the public. Further, we cannot sign a contract, deploy a new technology or even replace broken devices like cameras until a technology has gone through this process, which can take about six months to complete — for each technology.
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